There's nothing quite like cooling off in a nice p... ...pool isn't clean, you can face all kinds of nasty diseases . And I'm not talking about a pool having enough c... ...nter the water again after you read about all the diseases you can catch in a pool. On the upside, most just...

Diseases brought by Europeans wiped out 90% of the people... ...uo;t go the other way? Why didn’t New World diseases wreak havoc on Europeans?[https://youtu.be/JEYh5W... ...with plague, typhus, cholera, smallpox, and other diseases , but no “Americapox.” The...

If you have any interest in science and public health, you probably appreciate the hard work and genius that went into the development of vaccines as we know them. But there’s always more to the story. Or in this c...

For hundreds of years before we learned to treat c... ...of years before we learned to treat communicable diseases with antibiotics, the most effective treatment wa... ...ip was admitted to the mainland in order to catch disease entering a country. Hakai magazine tell us the st...

This map, interactive at the site, shows the vacci... ...at these schools, and children can contract these diseases and transmit them to babies and those with compro... ..., however, and the best way to reduce the risk of disease is to vaccinate as many children as possible to r... ...possible to reach herd i...

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao0dqJvH4a0]YouTu... ...l habits, unusual appearance, reputation of being diseased and association in legend with vampires and blood... ...pic of bats, particularly their being carriers of disease , in this video. Via Science Dump

An article on scurvy opens up with the story of the Norwegian whaling station named Smeerenburg, which was abandoned every winter during the off season. When someone got the great idea to leave seven men there all winter...

Artist Odra Noel, who trained as a doctor,... ...ous human tissues (and how they relate to various diseases ) to represent each continents. Link - via NewScie... ...opulation, suffers greatly from neurodegenerative diseases , including dementia (neurones, brain tissue).... ...here the leading cause of death a...